In a new Salon.com feature, Professor Corey Robin (GC/Brooklyn, Political Science) interviews Brooklyn College’s Moustafa Bayoumi about the profound changes ushered in by the “War on Terror” — legal, political, and cultural. Read more

Professor Merih Uctum (GC/Brooklyn, Economics) lent her considerable expertise to New York State last month, analyzing economic and revenue forecasts before the Board of Economic Advisors of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Read more

Distinguished Professor Michelle Fine (Psychology/Urban Education/Women’s Studies) appeared in an Al Jazeera America segment this week on the rise of Islamophobia in the United States and the effects on children of Muslim-American families. Read more

Beginning in January 2016, Kelly will be responsible for leading the NYPL’s four research centers — the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Science, Industry and Business Library; the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street — and their 460 staff members. Read more

Professor Matthew K. Gold (NYCCT/GC, English/Digital Humanities) has been elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the primary scholarly association for digital humanists in North America. Read more

Professor Mandana Limbert (GC/Queens, Anthropology) has been awarded a 2016-17 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for her project, “Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab.” Read more